ABSTRACT
This chapter describes about learning in local teams, and the challenge of blending what is known about evidence-based practice with local, practice-based evidence and expertise, which is to say those lessons drawn from workers’ lived experiences in the streets, youth clubs, family homes, offices or clinics where real-life, face-to-face therapeutic work is done. It is that scientific knowledge derived from trials risks being seen as rarefied in its carefully selected, randomised, blinded and controlled ‘purity’, but, equally, it is precisely here that we assume the researchers labouring to produce this evidence mostly hope to bring help. A number of features of Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Therapy make it determinedly innovative in the field of practice development for this population, including its promotion of a community of practice and its embracing open source methodology and these aspects are explained here and in terms that do not require computing expertise.
